However, the company's director of financial reporting,
Ashleigh McDermott, sent an email on Wednesday night that
appeared to suggest the company would not be taking any questions
on the call.

"We hope you will tune in tomorrow for our business
update call," the email says. "Our desire is to provide as much
transparency as possible for our investors, analysts, customers
and employees. To that end, we invite you to send
any questions you still have remaining after the conference call
to me via email. We will compile these questions and address them
on our next conference call or in another appropriate
format."

Hedge fund manager Whitney
Tilson, who runs Kase Capital and is short Lumber Liquidators,
has a problem with this.

Here's Tilson:

Unless I'm mis-reading the
email...which LL sent to analysts (and others?) ~2 hours ago
(9:30pm EST), the company isn't going to take any questions on
the call tomorrow morning.

So they're just going to read a prepared statement — no doubt
mirroring what they've already posted on their web site — and
then hang up???

The 60 Minutes piece aired 10 days ago and they knew about it at
least two weeks ago (when they disclosed it on the Q4 conference
call, which means they likely first learned about it three or
more weeks ago) — yet they are so ill-prepared and/or have so
much to hide and/or are so terrified of their legal exposures
that they can't take any unscripted questions??

This is bizarre — and so damning. As one analyst said: "If you
are 100% clean....you shouldn't be afraid to talk."

Exactly.

I am shocked that they aren't
willing to defend themselves (other than posting a web page and
reading a script) and also delighted, because I now have even
more conviction that my investment thesis is absolutely
correct.

We reached out to Lumber
Liquidators about why it seemed unlikely to allow questions on
its call. We'll update when we hear back.

On March 1, "60
Minutes" and Anderson Cooper aired a damning
report that found that Lumber
Liquidators appeared to be selling laminate flooring from China
with levels of formaldehyde higher than that permitted under
California law. High levels of formaldehyde introduce numerous
health concerns.

Lumber Liquidators said in a statement after the report
aired that it believed "60 Minutes" used an improper testing
method.

Since the report aired,
shares of Lumber Liquidators have tumbled more than
36%.